The funny thing is that is not the only MS software that forces IE on you. There are others (especially in VS.NET).
And while I'm on the topic of IE being foisted upon me...
The only Web site that I have problems browsing is microsoft.com. Well, that and MSNBC.com. So much relies on IE. Why are MS coders in such a manic rush to make themselves look so stupid? "Uh, we only know how to write code for IE." I can view multimedia content at every news site except MSNBC, which requires IE and related crap.
OK. Yes. I know why they do it. But, my god. Pick some other way to annoy people in to using your products. That, or actually release a browser that is as good as Firebird. Firebird is in freaking Alpha and it's better than a 10 year old IE. Innovation my ass.
What's the cost? I can't find any info on pricing, etc. Sounds like a great product if it works as advertised.
But for me, the model I want is a broker model. I want to sell my processor time to a broker who will resell it on a day to day basis to whoever is the highest bidder. E-bay of grid computing, ya know. I don't want to pick projects, download clients, etc. I just want to pariticipate (i.e. make money) from whoever is willing to pay the most at any given moment.
And when I feel like it, I'll volunteer x% to non-commericial stuff like SETI@home.
I seem to recall a slashdot story from about a year ago that claimed that drinking so much caffeine caused your testicles to shrink.
Aren't there other, more healthy ways to lower your risk of diabetes? Like exercise and eating right? Or is that one of those "things you are not allowed to say" on slashdot?
I had one main system destroyed by flood (OK. a couple fans were salvageable, as was the DVD drive because the flood was only 15 inches or so.)
I have had one half of a RAID pair fail.
In the past 15+ years, I have had countless HD failures. What is with your "I thought so" comment? I suspect you are rather young or you spend all your time playing games.
All at home. I do backup and I do keep at least a quarterly backup off site. It is much more time consuming and cumbersome than it needs to be.
Home data is becoming more and more critical. Not only to mention media licenses, but financial and personal data as well. Health records, bills, etc. Historical correspondance with friends/family. Pictures, video. All important and all reasons that people buy computers.
When people have horrible failures, they and their acquaintances shy away from the technology. The technology is good. The industry (us) needs to provide seemless, portable, reliable backup. Mirra fails on all counts. This is obvious from the article. So my question remains. Why feature a failure of a product?
So why not just do RAID on a main home computer and run automated backups to it? This thing is worthless for the one thing that people really need.... Offsite backup media.
Your house burns down? You lost everything. You have a flood in your basement and your computer gets wet? You lost everything. Leaky celing onto your Mirra? Lost it all. Mirra HD crash? Lost it all.
Thie advertisement on Slashdot is transparent. I got rid of all the other slashdot advertising by using the block images feature of Firebird. How do I get rid of this one?
This product does not sufficiently solve the problem and should not be promoted on Slashdot.
Tom Ridge will claim that we now need to ban books in order to be more "secure".
The FBI needs to get a life if they were at all concerned about this. How embarassing. Morons. Everything is "terrorism" until proven otherwise. My god.
"Fail fast" was the mantra of Tom Peters in the late 80's. I believe that he has since denounced all his teachings of the 80's and early 90's in order to cash in on a whole new "chaos" philosophy.
I agree with the whole fail fast notion. Try stuff as fast as possible to see if it will work. I think we see this philosophy played out in things like RUP and Extreme Programming.
I guess my point is that this news is 15 years old. Someone should search the Slashdot archives for a dupe from 1989...
We carry around all this crap (yes, me included) and require it for our jobs and personal lives. We can't live without it. Right? Laptop, cell phone, Wi-Fi gear, PDA, and related equipment. Are we not borg already?
To be honest, I don't think you really know if it's a production/parts vs. engineering problem.
I suggest that because they have been able to correct SOME battery status/recharge problems with firmware updates that the problem is most likely engineering.
It is a rather lousy design. I have a new 30GB iPod and the battery status and recharge times are just goofy and all over the place. Yes. I have upgraded software.
Just poor design. Nice and shiny on the outside, but terrible engineering elsewhere. And yes. This battery problem is simply terrible, embarassing engineering.
Mr. Jobs' ego is too big to admit to this problem. Anyone who defends Apple in any other regard just has to look at how they handle goofs like this. It says an awful lot about the company.
You see, on Slashdot, we are supposed to pretend that people should never settle for buggy software under any circumstances. Pretend that there is no such thing as a tradeoff or compromise. "Windows is buggy, so everyone who buys it is stupid! My Nomad is buggy, so everyone who buys it is smart!"
Please deactivate your Slashdot account immediately for bringing this issue out in the open.
Slashdot Mirror
Just post the censored sites as links in Slashdot stories.
Censorship via the slashdot effect.
You can indeed buy a simple cell phone.
Why in my desk drawer alone, I have 3 that I will be more than happy to sell to you.
I think I have an HDTV, therefore I am.
Again... No sarcastic, slanted, political message from the editor tagged on to the end of the story.
How in the world am I supposed to know how to think? You expect me to actually read the article?
Makes you wonder how in the hell Shakespear ever got by without a Slashdot subscription.
Sheesh. It's high school, dude.
It is Monday in the UK right now. You need to wind up your sundial, son, and switch to decaf.
Typical US-centric slashdot knee-jerk, um, jerk.
Unbelievable that someone with so much content can't put up the bandwidth to support it. Someone goofed big time.
What in the world did they expect?
The funny thing is that is not the only MS software that forces IE on you. There are others (especially in VS .NET).
And while I'm on the topic of IE being foisted upon me...
The only Web site that I have problems browsing is microsoft.com. Well, that and MSNBC.com. So much relies on IE. Why are MS coders in such a manic rush to make themselves look so stupid? "Uh, we only know how to write code for IE." I can view multimedia content at every news site except MSNBC, which requires IE and related crap.
OK. Yes. I know why they do it. But, my god. Pick some other way to annoy people in to using your products. That, or actually release a browser that is as good as Firebird. Firebird is in freaking Alpha and it's better than a 10 year old IE. Innovation my ass.
How would you go about RAIDing these things?
I would wonder about heat and noise, myself. But otherwise, seems like a nice solution. I like going external on stuff like this. Nifty!
11 pounds, though. Ouch. Talk about a brick.
What's the cost? I can't find any info on pricing, etc. Sounds like a great product if it works as advertised.
But for me, the model I want is a broker model. I want to sell my processor time to a broker who will resell it on a day to day basis to whoever is the highest bidder. E-bay of grid computing, ya know. I don't want to pick projects, download clients, etc. I just want to pariticipate (i.e. make money) from whoever is willing to pay the most at any given moment.
And when I feel like it, I'll volunteer x% to non-commericial stuff like SETI@home.
We have forgotten to be humble.
We have forgotten not to act like those who we dislike.
We have forgotten to take the high road.
And this includes letters and statement from leaders in the community, as much as ACs on Slashdot.
I seem to recall a slashdot story from about a year ago that claimed that drinking so much caffeine caused your testicles to shrink.
Aren't there other, more healthy ways to lower your risk of diabetes? Like exercise and eating right? Or is that one of those "things you are not allowed to say" on slashdot?
I had one main system destroyed by flood (OK. a couple fans were salvageable, as was the DVD drive because the flood was only 15 inches or so.)
I have had one half of a RAID pair fail.
In the past 15+ years, I have had countless HD failures. What is with your "I thought so" comment? I suspect you are rather young or you spend all your time playing games.
All at home. I do backup and I do keep at least a quarterly backup off site. It is much more time consuming and cumbersome than it needs to be.
Home data is becoming more and more critical. Not only to mention media licenses, but financial and personal data as well. Health records, bills, etc. Historical correspondance with friends/family. Pictures, video. All important and all reasons that people buy computers.
When people have horrible failures, they and their acquaintances shy away from the technology. The technology is good. The industry (us) needs to provide seemless, portable, reliable backup. Mirra fails on all counts. This is obvious from the article. So my question remains. Why feature a failure of a product?
So why not just do RAID on a main home computer and run automated backups to it? This thing is worthless for the one thing that people really need.... Offsite backup media.
Your house burns down? You lost everything. You have a flood in your basement and your computer gets wet? You lost everything. Leaky celing onto your Mirra? Lost it all. Mirra HD crash? Lost it all.
Thie advertisement on Slashdot is transparent. I got rid of all the other slashdot advertising by using the block images feature of Firebird. How do I get rid of this one?
This product does not sufficiently solve the problem and should not be promoted on Slashdot.
Tom Ridge will claim that we now need to ban books in order to be more "secure".
The FBI needs to get a life if they were at all concerned about this. How embarassing. Morons. Everything is "terrorism" until proven otherwise. My god.
"Fail fast" was the mantra of Tom Peters in the late 80's. I believe that he has since denounced all his teachings of the 80's and early 90's in order to cash in on a whole new "chaos" philosophy.
I agree with the whole fail fast notion. Try stuff as fast as possible to see if it will work. I think we see this philosophy played out in things like RUP and Extreme Programming.
I guess my point is that this news is 15 years old. Someone should search the Slashdot archives for a dupe from 1989...
We carry around all this crap (yes, me included) and require it for our jobs and personal lives. We can't live without it. Right? Laptop, cell phone, Wi-Fi gear, PDA, and related equipment. Are we not borg already?
Discuss...
iApple will sue, saying they have an iTrademark on iXXX where XXX = noun.
Please do not mark this as a dupe to the first post.
iThank you.
This stuff is too complicated for me to understand. Why didn't a slashdot editor add a quirky, sarcastic, biased comment so I would know how to think?
I don't want to read all those links. Is there any way that I can make fun of Microsoft based on any of this? That would make it easier. TIA
To be honest, I don't think you really know if it's a production/parts vs. engineering problem.
I suggest that because they have been able to correct SOME battery status/recharge problems with firmware updates that the problem is most likely engineering.
Having a wide variation in performance (i.e. You vs. me vs. others) is another sign of poor engineering. Actually, it speaks directly to quality.
You may resume your vigorous defense of, um, well, nothing.
It is a rather lousy design. I have a new 30GB iPod and the battery status and recharge times are just goofy and all over the place. Yes. I have upgraded software.
Just poor design. Nice and shiny on the outside, but terrible engineering elsewhere. And yes. This battery problem is simply terrible, embarassing engineering.
Mr. Jobs' ego is too big to admit to this problem. Anyone who defends Apple in any other regard just has to look at how they handle goofs like this. It says an awful lot about the company.
We're having roast swan AGAIN. We just had it at Thanksgiving.
Tastes like chicken......that poops on itself.
I hope this is good news for us VMWare users. Can't help to think it is. Things seemed pretty iffy for them after MS entered the space.
The only downside I can think of is that EMC focuses on the enterprise. Don't know if they give a spider-hole about us lowly single license folks.
I, for one, will await a price decrease announcement after MS ships their product. I desperately need to upgrade, but can't afford their steep prices.
EMC recently acquired Documentum. They are becoming quite a powerhouse. If they acquire Sun, things could get very interesting again.
So is "shut up", if you get my drift...
By the way, your post didn't pass the grammar test either.
Ah. A conundrum.
You see, on Slashdot, we are supposed to pretend that people should never settle for buggy software under any circumstances. Pretend that there is no such thing as a tradeoff or compromise. "Windows is buggy, so everyone who buys it is stupid! My Nomad is buggy, so everyone who buys it is smart!"
Please deactivate your Slashdot account immediately for bringing this issue out in the open.